ISBN: 9780983937807

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one o… Plus…

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler's dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as "the Eighth Wonder of the World." Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935's deadly "Storm of the Century" and its sweeping destruction of "the railroad that crossed an ocean" to terrifying life. Last Train to Paradise celebrates a crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition in a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature's wrath. "A dramatic story . . . and Les Standiford has a good deal of fun with it all." --"Washington Post Book World""A rousing--a deeply sobering--story." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed"A fascinating and incredibly compelling account . . . I could not put it down." --Donald Trump"A definitive account of the engineering feat that became known as 'Flagler's Folly'. . . A rousing adventure."--"Atlanta Journal-Constitution " Media ><

2002, ISBN: 098393780X

An oversized, limited commemorative edition of acclaimed South Florida author Les Standiford s gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key We… Plus…

An oversized, limited commemorative edition of acclaimed South Florida author Les Standiford s gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West extension of Henry Flagler s Florida East Coast Railway, originally published in 2002 and now in its 20th printing. This edition, commemorating the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad, January 22, 1912, includes a linen cloth cover, special heavy stock, silver foil stamping, a double gatefold, a hand-tipped map, and 150 new and vintage photographs and illustrations. Curators and historians at the Library of Congress, the Monroe County Library in Key West, and at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach assisted Creative Director Petra Mason with image sourcing, as did staff at The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York. Many of the images in this edition have never been published before. A Books & Books Press production in association with Motherland Miami and The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida. 328 pages10 1/2 x 8 1/2 150 illustrations HC ISBN 978-0-9839378-0-7$60.00 20th century,americas,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history,modern (16th-21st centuries),nature,politics and social sciences Biographies, Motherland<